On February 7-10, Web Developer Joel Richard attended the Code4Lib conference held at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Sub-freezing weather aside, the conference was a hotbed of software developers, metadata experts and computer people getting together to discuss their latest work in developing software, websites, tools and technologies that support the mission of libraries across the country and the world!
Author: Joel Richard
Joel Richard is the head of Web and IT department for the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, and the Technical Coordinator for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Joel is also the creator and developer of the Macaw software used by BHL partners to add content to BHL.
Now that the festivities are over, here's a bit of history of Mardi Gras. Meaning "Fat Tuesday" in french, this festive day came to America in 1699 with with French more ยป